Samuel Welo

Samuel Welo was an American advertising calligrapher, typographer, designer and lettering artist whose work appeared in the 1920s.

Based on his lettering, several typefaces have seen the light of day. A partial list:

Other alphabet designs: (unnamed, 1928), (unnamed, 1928), Modernistic (1932; I suspect that this was used as a basis foir Samuello by Intellecta Design).

Books by Welo:

Gene Gable scanned many pages of Studio Handbook Letter & Design for Artists and Advertisers (1927, Samuel Welo). this book has 233 pages and is entirely hand-lettered! This page has a copy of these scans, but please visit Gable's page for discussion and links to other articles by him.
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Contact

Luc Devroye
School of Computer Science
McGill University
Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6
lucdevroye@gmail.com
http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc